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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by sustaining appetite and promoting new skin growth. Since burns heal in a relatively short time, the burn victim need not worry about the bad side effects (excessive hair growth, face swelling, skin streaking, etc.) that often follow long-sustained dosages of the drug...
Just as wonderful from the arthritis victims' point of view was the fact that Dr. Tufts's patients (nine so far) suffered no setbacks when treatment was stopped, and none of the side effects (diabetes and hardening of the arteries) generally resulting from hormone treatment...
...first flush of success after the publication of This Side of Paradise, 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to Princeton one day in 1920 for a banquet of former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...
...oldtime pitchman employs the "high pitch" and is usually "a screamer, a semi-comedian and comparatively illiterate," says Kaye. On television, the "low pitch" is preferred: "Our people tend to be on the quiet side; they're subtle, more confidential, and much more personal." In evidence, Kaye points to his top TV pitchman, William "Hoppy" Haupt, a college graduate (Loyola of Los Angeles) and a former teacher at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College Labor School. Says Kaye admiringly: "Hoppy does everything except gadgets. He's extraordinary at selling finer quality merchandise...
...returned to New Delhi after making a preliminary pass at the defiant peak. All earlier expeditions had attacked the north slope, which lies in Tibet. Houston's group decided to investigate the unexplored south slope, which lies in friendly and comparatively accessible Nepal. From a distance, the south side of the mountain looked considerably more favorable for climbing. The slope of the strata looked gentler, and there was a promising formation something like huge stairs. Even more important was the fact that the southern side of the mountain gets more sunshine than the northern side, and therefore should...